Los Angeles Police were involved in physical confrontations tonight while attempting to detain some protesters in downtown L.A. during the third night of marches to decry the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
Local news showed police chasing some protesters through the streets near Pershing Square, but did not…
UPDATE:Â Minneapolis protesters broke into a police precinct building in the city and set it on fire Thursday night.
The angry mob torched the 3rd Precinct building of the Minneapolis police to protest the death of George Floyd in police custody.
It is not clear if the police or anyone else was affected by the blaze…
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said today that the state has been asked for a variance to its shutdown orders that would allow a speed-up in reopening local businesses. If approved, that could see restaurants and retailers free to open their establishments with safety protocols in place, possibly as soon as…
A second night of protests has erupted in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis African American man who died in a confrontation with police.
The group, smaller than Wednesday’s gathering that blocked traffic on the 101 Freeway, gathered outside Los Angeles Police headquarters around 5 PM. The…
There was very little pomp, but that owed more to the circumstance, as Conan O’Brien gave the first remote commencement address in Harvard’s long history to the Class of 2020.
Delivered from a podium set up in his backyard, O’Brien used the unusual setting to his advantage, opening his speech with a montage of…
Actor/rapper Ice Cube has spoken out via Twitter about his anger over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, an incident that sparked a freeway protest in Los Angeles and two nights of violence in Minnesota.
Ice Cube seemingly took things a step further in one tweet, asking the question, “How…
Both sides of the 101 Freeway were blocked on Wednesday night by protesters condemning the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died Monday while in police custody in that city.
Crowds gathered earlier in downtown to rail against Floyd’s treatment, organized by the Black Lives Matter movement, who tweeted…
The state of California has new plans today for how churches and malls can begin to reopen from coronavirus lockdown, but not a peep from Governor Gavin Newsom this Memorial Day on his promised Film & TV production guidelines – at least not yet.
"This was prematurely announced with little buy-in from interested…
In the latest travel ban, the White House on Sunday announced that non-citizens would be barred from entering the US if they are coming from Brazil, where COVID-19 cases are exploding.
The administration "has determined that the Federative Republic of Brazil is experiencing widespread, ongoing person-to-person…
Even as government officials scolded and health experts warned, Americans flocked to the beaches this Memorial Day weekend after two months of confinement.
Beaches from the East coast to the West coast and along the southern tip in Florida, Texas and more were packed, and lakes saw an influx of boaters and party…
Film director Michael Moore correctly predicted the results of the 2016 presidential election, one of the few liberals who saw what was happening in the key battleground states.
Now, he’s again looking at the upcoming election, and doesn’t like what he sees (at least, so far). Speaking out in a Vanity Fair article…
The latest COVID-19 numbers in New York show the lowest levels of death since March, and other metrics indicating the state is making headway as it battles the world’s highest levels of infection.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 84 people died in the 24 hours before his Saturday morning press briefing. The total was…
